Impact of Psychological Empowerment on Employees’ Work and Organization Engagement: A Study in the Manufacturing Sectors, Bangladesh

Abstract

Today’s organizations prioritize to have energized, active and psychologically empowered employees who can be engaged solely in their work and organization. In this regard, the current study explores the impact of the relationship between psychological empowerment and work and organization engagement in Bangladesh. Employees working in the manufacturing sectors in Bangladesh are the target population for this study. Total 237 respondents responded to the survey. The data were collected by using a survey questionnaire from three large manufacturing organizations in Bangladesh. The data are analyzed through regression technique to see the cause and effect of the relationship between psychological empowerment and engagement. The results depict that the dependent variable (work engagement) is influenced by the independent variable (psychological empowerment) by 62.4% and psychological empowerment influences organizational engagement by 41.6%. The research generates a new contribution to the HROD field by adding organization engagement in the literature. For future research, the author suggests adding different psychological variables to be aware of the impact on engagement of the employees.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n5p389